If I remember correctly there was more focus on the storytelling and less on combat. Making characters and doing combat is quite easy. The combat is mostly describing your action and the dm deciding how hard it is. I think you do need a good DM to make it work though.

Ooh that's just like how I do now with texts based RPs: You describe in your post your actions and your dungeon mistress decides if it works or not. Anyways, I like a game with more focusing on storytelling and less on combat, so also good to know thanks you plytho a lot. And I hate RPGs combats mostly 'cause... I not a military officers, I always choose like: Barmaid or courtesan for my chars never combat oriented peoples if I can help it? So this game sounds excellent re: fulfilling multiple of my RPGs interests.

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Mouse Guard is a lot of fun. I've played a number of sessions and GM'd a few (nerd cred: I even know the guys that wrote it).

Depending on your rpg background it can be a bit of a shift in thinking. It's got its own sort of math to do, but it's very much not on the level of games like D&D or Shadowrun (though it does use d6 dice pools like Shadowrun).

Also, if you're really not a fan of rpg combat (and I totally understand) I could probably come up with quite a few games that either don't focus on combat much or some that explicitly don't even use combat. Or, really, games that focus more on storytelling at the table than crunchy dice mechanics.

In other words story games are my jam and are generally my favorite sorts of games.

Ginger wrote:I'll take you up on the offer all powerful, almighty pseudoidiot: You know any storytelling focused RPGs in the fantasy, sci fi or survival horrors genres?

Sounds like you might want to check out Fate - it does use specialist dice (4 6-sided dice with -,-, , ,+,+ and add the pluses and subtract the minuses) but things mostly revolve around "aspects" - brief bits of descriptive text that apply to just about anything and can be created by anyone.

Thanks a lot rmsgrey. And by the way a shout out to some of my fav tabletop RPGs, which are variously maths-heavy: D&D, Exalted, Planescape, White Wolf's Vampires: The Masquerade... um... I think I've played fifth edition D&D mostly? And one time did a campaign where my own fam plays along. It was totes hilairs.

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Fantasy:Dungeon World - An homage to old-school D&D but designed with newer indie sensibilities.In A Wicked Age - Good for all sorts of sword & sorcery stories.Fall of Magic - One of the most beautiful games I've ever played. It's pricey unfortunately, but the physical components are amazing. Magic is fading from the world and it's your job to escort the world's last mage across the world.Kagematsu - Great game for playing with gender. By the rules the GM should be a woman and the players should all be men. The GM acts as a Japanese Ronin come to a small village. The players are all women in the village trying to charm and persuade the Ronin to stay and help them with some problem. I once played a hack of this that took place in Regency England instead and it was a lot of fun.Masks of the Mummy Kings - More sword & sorcery. Venturing into forgotten tombs for great treasure and great risk.

Urban Fantasy:Monsterhearts: Teenage monsters in high school. Does a really great job at playing up teenage angst/drama/emotions/hormones. Inspired by things like Buffy & Twilight.Urban Shadows: Great for all sorts of Urban fantasy stories. Inspired by things like Dresden Files, Being Human, Supernatural, etc.

Edit:Seconding recommendation of Fate. I'm not a big fan of Fate myself, but it can do pretty much any genre you want. A lot of people really like it and it's quite popular, it's just not quite up my alley. Cortex Plus (recently Kickstarted and currently in production) is another game in the same vein. A good generic system that you can build just about any setting out of.

Oh holy wow you d-did an amazing and extensive list. I am looking at all of these. Thank you so much PI. You are a rock star. <3 Starstruck. Anyways, the first thing I read was, "Teenage drama, inspired by Buffy and Twilight" so yes, looks amazing and awesome.

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